Avvo, the Seattle-based company that runs an online ratings service that profiles lawyers, said today it is expanding to provide online ratings of physicians. Avvo says its service will offer consumers detailed information on a doctor’s “background, experience, and disciplinary record.” The company says it has compiled profiles on 800,000 physicians around the country. Avvo raised $10 million in March from DAG Ventures, Benchmark Capital, and Ignition Partners
Author: Luke Timmerman
Luke is an award-winning journalist specializing in life sciences. He has served as national biotechnology editor for Xconomy and national biotechnology reporter for Bloomberg News. Luke got started covering life sciences at The Seattle Times, where he was the lead reporter on an investigation of doctors who leaked confidential information about clinical trials to investors. The story won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and several other national prizes. Luke holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and during the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.
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